BFOI Y2: Bird Keeper Jon

Jon’s year 1 app: [link]
Jon's BFOI Y2 Tumblr: [link]

Wow. It feels like I only joined BFOI Y1 recently. But look how much Jon has changed. It’s actually super exciting to see how my style has changed and the way Jon has changed. So I’m sorry to my watchers who are sick of pokemon stuff, because I think these OCTs have helped me a lot, and I don’t see them ending in the near future. However I will be trying to do some more original stuff.

But without further ado, Wall of text:

Bird Keeper:
Jon comes from a long line of trainers dedicated to the protection, breeding, and strengthening of flying type (specifically bird) pokemon. So naturally, Jon’s pokemon are all birds. This bird keeper clan has a lot of odd policies, including that of pokemon trainer bonding. As a rule, no pokemon belongs to any one keeper, and they should not be trained to be loyal to any one keeper. The birds are usually initially trained by one keeper, and then given to another keeper to use for a while before being traded for another. (Roc and Harrier of his year one team were both given to others in Jon’s family. Roc back to his original trainer, and Harrier to Jon’s younger brother) And for the second year, this is the first time all the pokemon on his team are completely his. The reason he is able to keep them, is that they each have traits that make them “difficult”. This makes them undesirable to some. And ideal for Jon.

As a general rule, Jon doesn’t like the Bird Keepers organization. He finds them too restrictive for a group that trains creatures that are symbols of freedom, and finds some of the traditions ridiculous. On more than one occasion Jon has brought up his concerns to his family. It wasn’t always civil. Jon’s family and the Bird Keeper clan is very traditional, and that Jon would have started rejecting ideas so long engrained brought his loyalty into question, alienating him. After a while, Jon stopped trying. He didn’t care enough for it to be worth the effort.

Year One Summary:
Jon started off with some ambition, hoping that doing well in the competition would prove his worth. To himself and others. Show his team was fantastic, and that they could overcome the disadvantage of having such an unbalanced team. By the 4th round, Jon didn’t want to go out into the rain and let the opportunity slip by. Since before he went to the islands, he loved a woman who represented everything he wished he could be. He cared for her more than he cared about anything for a long time. He never told her how he felt. She fell in love with someone else. Jon was left without the right to self-pity after losing someone that was never his to begin with.

Personality:
Jon has a wall citadel of BS between himself and his actual feelings. It’s not hard to see, but there are only a few mohawked murder birds (and the like) that can just rip through it. Jon is sarcastic and blunt. He’s not purposefully mean, but there is nothing over the line he wouldn’t dare criticize.

Jon has no secrets about himself. If asked directly, there is very little he won’t give a straight answer to, but he does sometimes choose not to answer questions. He won’t offer details, but if continually pushed, he will probably give more information than you cared to know. However, he will share absolutely none of his friend’s or family’s secrets, no matter how trivial.

Jon will insult and criticize almost anything, his team his family his friends and so on. However, you are not allowed to. He insults the things he loves because he knows he loves them, and they know he loves them. If a stranger does it, he will defend his least favorite aspects of his loved ones to the end. Or if that is too much effort, punch them.

Training:
Around Jon’s neck is a bird whistle. That whistle is Jon’s primary tool for communication with his team in battle and flying. Shouting over the wind when flying can be difficult, so whistles work well in the air, and work well in battle as he can convey messages quickly and his opponent doesn’t know what he’s saying. A few years back, Jon made a code with different notes and whistles so that his pokemon and he could communicate on the same plane. Even when Jon’s not using the whistle, he can understand more specifically what his pokemon are telling him. His team respects Jon and listens to him for the most part, but there is never any mistake that THEY are the ones battling. And THEY do the work.

Jon refuses to battle over personal issues, because he thinks it’s cowardly for people to let their monsters fight their fights for them.

Egret
Species: Fearow
Egret is stubborn, angry, snappy and generally quite rude. While Jon tends to be a little more tactful with his criticisms, she will flat out insult people without provocation. She is disobedient, and naturally a handful. And she is Jon’s best, closest friend.

Pallas
Species: Noctowl
The years have caught up with this old girl. Her physical strength has faded, however her psychic strength has been honed. Although she doesn’t have the raw power of her prime, she fights smart, and is quite resourceful. She is slowing down, but this granny isn’t out just yet. She has trouble with the whistle code, so she communicates with her psychic powers.

Martlet
Species: Swellow
Martlet truly believes he is one of the greatest things to have happened to the world. His ego makes a Rayquaza seem minuscule. He loves his plumage, he loves his personality, he loves the ladies, and they don’t mind him. He thinks of himself as a romanticized knight in shining armor, and this makes him braver than he should be. With a desire to show off, Martlet tends to dive right into things without properly thinking them through. So he’s more daring than many, and more moronic than most.

Horus
Species: Pidgeotto
Horus is incredibly kind natured. He is shy and loving and gentle, he is the opposite of Egret, and is almost too good natured for his own good. If his friends didn’t stand up for him, he’d probably let himself get walked all over, and he dislikes fighting and battling. Jon’s training for him tends to involve getting his self esteem up.

Peking
Species: Farfetch’d
Although the only member on Jon’s team who has never been to the Ohana islands before, he doesn’t feel left out. Stewart hasn’t been there either, and Stewart is there to protect him. Peking is always alright with Stewart there. Most of the time, Peking is energetic, twitchy, and laughs at the most peculiar of things, but when he’s in battle, his whole temperance changes as he becomes the ultimate duck samarai warrior. As you might have guessed, Peking has a few screws loose.

Stewart
Species: Weighted Companion Leek
As well as being his greatest weapon, Stewart is Peking’s best friend. He’s quiet around other people and doesn’t really move around much, but he serves as Peking’s voice of reason (oh that explains so much) and emotional support. Peking loves Stewart more than anything. And Stewart has started to grow on the rest of the team as well.

Misc:
-On Jon’s right hand is a glove used to hold small-medium sized birds so their talons don’t rip his arms to shreds.
-On his left wrist is a metal band, like those given to every singe one of his pokemon with their nicknames and numbers for medical information. He wears one too as a sign that they are all equal.
-Jon has 5 siblings. A sister and 4 brothers. Among them he is the 4th oldest and 3rd youngest.